Persona AI targets shipyard welding as first humanoid job

Persona AI, founded by Nic Radford and Jerry Pratt, is focusing on skilled trades like welding for economic viability, targeting expensive skilled labor rather than unskilled work. The company aims to make humanoids profitable in shipyard welding, a job held by one of the first industrial robots.
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